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With the chief election observer observer michael gallagher. im here with the head of the e.u. selectorial mission who just gave a statement mr garland weve seen a lot of cracked whistle crackdown on the media in the run up to the elections an unlevel playing field would you say that the elections will free in fan we are never reducing our assessment to these two nice words that fit of course in a headline for a journalist but the process is more complex there are the legal aspects that the lega...

You can connect some of that there. but thats a new leader in terms of the top issue. a lot of republicans having asking the question, whats the data going to show? 27%, a new number out just this hour. is it -- separating kids at the border, is that a human rights violation? 60% of americans say yes, it is. 36% say no. among democrats, 95% say it is. among independents, 60 say it is. only 21% of the republicans say it is. >> oh, my gosh. >> you have the partisan split, which is on every questio...

We think those probably werent successful, but what were seeing is that in addition to the well-known efforts to affect the election environment and affect our social feeds and also physical voting now is very much in danger. >> lets switch gears and talk about internal democratic politics for a moment. how could the blue wave within the democrats own party impact the candidate they put forth in the 2020 presidential race? its been getting attention in the wake of the victory here in new york by...

You know whats not awesome? gig-speed internet. when only certain people can get it. lets fix that. lets give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and these guys, him, ah. oh hello. that lady, these houses! yes, yes and yes. and dont forget about them. uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. >> i think theres going to be a very challenging election environment. nobody has had a good off year election since 200...

Range of folks. what he is a tough, smart, hard working lawyer that will really put the screws to the mueller investigation and make it tough for them and really defend his client. well see how this plays out. >> john flood has the credit. what do you think about it? >> well, president trump needs very good lawyers because hes in big trouble. per our previous conversation, we still dont know what rick gates, george papadopoulos and michael flynn have told robert mueller about what president trum...

Were grateful but the details that are packed in there, this thing was a garbage fire on a train that was going into a nuclear waste dump. it is such a tragedy and it is amazing to think that a human being who is smart and its amazing to think that a person of that level of intellect was able to run two of the worst national presidential campaigns in history in one lifetime. >> martha: how did that happen happen? >> clearly, they ran a campaign that was trying to be the obama third term and it c...

That are packed in there, this thing was a garbage fire on a train that was going into a nuclear waste dump. it is such a tragedy and it is amazing to think that a human being who is smart and its amazing to think that a person of that level of intellect was able to run two of the worst national presidential campaigns in history in one lifetime. >> martha: how did that happen happen? >> clearly, they ran a campaign that was trying to be the obama third term and it clearly changed the election en...

Up and took it to the end zone. >> im not going to use the word fumble. i dont think it was nye fumble. night satellite blip. some of these guys have to overperform and some need the president to drag them across. berkeley, she desperately needs president obama to win by four or five points in nevada for her to get to 50%. you look at george allen, he needs romney to overperform. ditto with mack and thompson. it is interesting, tammy baldwin, the wisconsin one is the one that intrigues me the mo...

This whole issue, can it be debated during this election? can it really, can people get down in the weeds and really fight over specifics in an election environment? >> they could. do i expect it? not at all. what secretary geithner said and what democrats have adopted as the argument on medicare for instance, they just ignore social security. on medicare, to say well, it will change social security, or the medicare as we know it. well, of course it will. that is what you have to do. you have to...

2008, but in the election environment of 2012 hell take that estrangement and wear it as a badge of honor with independents. >> jeanne, hitting congress, daring them to do reform bills. i thought it was funny he mentioned this insider trading bill, which is this ability to take congress and wall street and lump them together. >> clearly hes going to run against congress, they will try to link this republican nominee to this congress. they began using it in september and we will hear it all the w...